Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp.

Lucent Technologies Inc. v. Gateway Inc.
Court	United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Docket nos.	3:02-cv-02060 3:03-cv-00699 3:03-cv-01108 3:06-cv-00684 3:07-cv-02000
Citations	470 F. Supp. 2d 1163 (S.D. Cal. 2007) 470 F. Supp. 2d 1180 (S.D. Cal. 2007) 470 F. Supp. 2d 1187 (S.D. Cal. 2007), affirmed, 525 F.3d 1200 (Fed. Cir. 2008) 509 F. Supp. 2d 912 (S.D. Cal. 2007), affirmed, 543 F.3d 710 (Fed. Cir. 2008) Lucent Techs., Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 544 F. Supp. 2d 1080 (S.D. Cal. 2008) 580 F. Supp. 2d 1016 (S.D. Cal. 2008); affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded, 580 F.3d 1301 (Fed. Cir. 2009); cert. denied, Microsoft Corp. v. Lucent Techs., Inc., 560 U.S. 935 (2010)
Court membership
Judges sitting	Rudi M. Brewster, Marilyn L. Huff

Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp., also known as Lucent Technologies Inc. v. Gateway Inc., was a long-running patent infringement case between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft litigated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and appealed multiple times to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Alcatel-Lucent was awarded $1.53 billion in a final verdict in August 2007 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego. The damages award was reversed on appeal in September 2009,^[1] and the case was returned for a separate trial on the amount of damages.^[2]